Samaresh Basu Quotes

#1. The melody of music makes my heart merry.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they
feel the black cold of chaos.

Mary Renault

#3. Late
for the present, I suppose

accentuated each time
you see, quick enough
this fraction of earth
underfoot

that upright speech
imprints,
like the whole of being
resumes

We've hit on something like lightning strikes

Deborah Heissler

#4. If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

Sean O'Casey

#5. Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

Gordon Wu

#6. I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

Selma Blair

#7. This wasn't going to last anyway. He'd have ended things in another fifty or sixty years with her. He'd never want anything permanent with her so this really didn't bother him. This was fine. This was more than fine, he thought as he drove his first through the wall.

R.L. Mathewson

#8. Music is the crystallization of sound.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he thinks it would be great if Donald Trump was president. Which is really weird because I thought Brady didn't like things that are filled with too much air.

Conan O'Brien

#10. Stories and objects share something, a patina ... Perhaps patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed ... But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing.

Edmund De Waal

#11. Death should be a learning experience, after all, or what's the point?

Jim Butcher